Today I was window shopping online and was thinking of purchasing some foods that I can eat when I was lead to the drink mixes and I decided to see if I could choose something for my consumption. Then I saw the popular brand name and saw the ingredient "Aspartame" as one of its key sweetener.
I searched for Aspartame and learned that it is an artificial sweetener that can be found in many sweetened foods and drinks which most I use as well recently for my drinks. Then I saw the questions behind it, is it bad for health? Why does it cause headaches? Then the answer to that was the cause of the headache which is the inhibition of dopamine and serotonin in the brains of the consumers of this particular artificial sweetener.
Then with a little more digging not far from Google it is seen at some tests that Aspartame really causes brain chemical disruptions by its inhibiting effects for the brain to be receptive of dopamine and serotonin. Then as with serotonin inhibition we could also suffer from anxiety-related symptoms, depression, feeling of unhappiness, bad moods and such.
Case and point, Aspartame really is bad for the health especially for brain health, so we must try to avoid it at all costs. It will be better to use maybe some natural alternatives like honey, stevia, coconut sugar, or sweet molasses (not the bitter one).
But is is not only in my opinion Aspartame that we should avoid but basically all processed packaged foods that has artificial ingredients because maybe government agencies tell us that these things are safe but consuming them in a long term will do us harm until our bodies reach its tipping/breaking point and then it will show signs of diseases.